Improvement in feed-bags



D. JANNOPOULO.

ATTES %mm M Teed-Bag.

Patented June 18, 1878.

INVENTORZ N-PETER8, PHOTO-QTHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

DEMETRIUS JANNOPOULO, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-BAGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,097, dated June 18, 1878 application filed March 29, 1878.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEMZETRIUS J ANNO- POU'LO, of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters of reference marked thereon,

which form a part of this specification.

My invention consists in an improvement in the construction of compound bridle-loops and their attachment to the head-gear of horses, in substitution of the ordinary buckle 'or the rosette, at the same time admitting of the attachment thereto of the cords of an ordinary feed-bag, in such a manner as to cause the raising or lowering of the feed -bag by the movements of the horses head while feeding.

The invention consists in the arrangement of loops intended to receive and hold by sewing or riveting the joined parts of a bridle headgear, consisting of the crown-piece and fore piece of a vertical or upper loop, a transverse tying-bar, and a lower loop, to which the cord attached to a feed-bag can be fastened, and

The head-gear A a, composed of the ordinary crown and fore pieces, with the extended throat-latch, is attached to the upper loop of the buckle A.

To the transverse bar I; of said loop A the cords c are attached by knotting. The free ends of said cords are then passed through the ring E on the feed-bag D. The said cords are then passed through the lower loop B, while the free ends of the cords are to be tied to the hames h or to the back-band.

In the operation of my improved loop in connection with a feed-bag it will be seen that by the attachment of the cords to the loopbars, and thence through the feed-bag rings and the rear lower loop, the cords are doubled, and the raising and lowering of the bag thereby rendered easily adjustable, and the ends of the cords are accordingly tied to the hames with due regard to the animals freedom in breathing.

What I claim as my invention is- In a feed-bag attachment, the compound loop A, the two loops of which are joined at right angles to each other, the upper loop servin g as an attachment for the head-gear A a, and the lower loop adapted for the reception of the cord 0, by which the feed-bag is raised or lowered, substantially in the manner described, and for the purpose stated.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DEMETRIUS J ANNOPOULO.

Witnesses:

ALEX. J. THOMSON, W. F. DALY. 

